Top 1200 Right And Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

There's no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

When bobsled is going right - and it sometimes goes wrong - it's the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.

By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,' set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.